Does hypocortisolism predict a poor response to cognitive behavioural therapy in chronic fatigue syndrome?

abstract：:In an effort to distil major findings about the nature of human ageing, seven propositions are presented as a guiding frame of reference. This propositional framework is then used to specify some conditions for a positive culture of old age and to advance one possible model of good psychological ageing. This model foc...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Baltes PB

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Subthreshold depression is a highly prevalent condition and a risk factor for developing a major depressive episode. Internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy may be a promising approach for the treatment of subthreshold depression. The current study had two aims: (1) to determine whether an internet-based ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Spek V,Nyklícek I,Smits N,Cuijpers P,Riper H,Keyzer J,Pop V

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alcohol is commonly considered to be associated with persistence of common mental disorder (CMD; anxiety/depression). However no community-based longitudinal studies have investigated the direction of causality. METHOD:We examined the association between alcohol consumption and recovery from CMD using data ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Haynes JC,Farrell M,Singleton N,Meltzer H,Araya R,Lewis G,Wiles NJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expressed emotion (EE) measure is a robust predictor of relapse in schizophrenia. At least twelve studies from a range of cultures have now shown this, although the authors of one maintain their findings are the result of confounding factors. A thirteenth study which failed to demonstrate a predictive effect was s...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kuipers L,Bebbington P

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Three cognitive constructs are risk factors for eating disorders: undue influence of weight and shape, concern about weight and shape, and body dissatisfaction (BD). Undue influence, a diagnostic criterion for eating disorders, is postulated to be closely associated with self-esteem whereas BD is postulated ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wade TD,Zhu G,Martin NG

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between psychological and biological processes is examined. Criteria for the distinction between reasons and causes are described. These provide a basis for a separation of those mental states and behaviour that can be explained in a reductionist fashion, and those that are not reducible. The proposed...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hill J

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug in the United States, few recent American studies have examined the attributes of long-term heavy cannabis users. METHOD:Using a case-control design, we obtained psychological and demographic measures on 108 individuals, age 30-55, who had smoked cannab...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Gruber AJ,Pope HG,Hudson JI,Yurgelun-Todd D

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excessive worry is a defining feature of generalized anxiety disorder and is present in a wide range of other psychiatric conditions. Therefore, individualized predictions of worry propensity could be highly relevant in clinical practice, with respect to the assessment of worry symptom severity at the indivi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Feng C,Cui Z,Cheng D,Xu R,Gu R

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Major depressive disorder (MDD) is accompanied by alterations in grey matter volume. However, the biological processes associated with regional structural perturbations remain elusive. METHODS:We applied integrative omics analysis to investigate specialized transcriptome signatures and translational determi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sha Z,Banihashemi L

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-three chronic obstructive bronchitic patients were psychologically assessed before being randomly allocated to 1 of 3 management regimes. The following measures were taken: psychiatric disturbance, personality, social-desirability response set, vocabulary, expectations about treatment, attitudes and beliefs abo...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rutter BM

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research on the subject of insight has been hampered by difficulties in definition and reliable measurement. METHODS:We compared several rating scales to measure insight on a group of 33 psychotic patients as well as assessing patients' psychopathology, clinical characteristics and cognitive functioning. R...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sanz M,Constable G,Lopez-Ibor I,Kemp R,David AS

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Learning and memory impairments in older adults with depression are linked to hippocampal atrophy. However, other subcortical regions may also be contributing to these deficits. We aimed to examine whether anterior caudate nucleus volume is significantly reduced in older adults with depression compared to co...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Jayaweera HK,Hickie IB,Duffy SL,Mowszowski L,Norrie L,Lagopoulos J,Naismith SL

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prior research suggested that time splitting--suppressing the past and dissociating it from present and future--protected refugee mental health in the aftermath of catastrophe. The current study investigates temporal reintegration, defined as cognitive recapture of the past and reconnecting it with present a...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Beiser M,Wickrama KA

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Subthreshold depression (SUBD) in later life is common and important as prodromal state and prominent risk factor in the development of major depressive disorder (MDD). Indicated prevention can reduce the incidence of MDD among people with SUBD substantially, but needs to be targeted to those that are truly ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Jeuring HW,Huisman M,Comijs HC,Stek ML,Beekman AT

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Social Behaviour Schedule (SBS) was examined as a measure of disability in a series of 66 chronic psychiatric patients, who were also assessed using the Social Role Performance Schedule (SRP) and the ninth edition of the Present State Examination (PSE). All three schedules have been used in previous studies in the...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sturt E,Wykes T

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The frequency and clinical, neuropsychological and neuroimaging correlates of apathy in patients who have had a stroke are inadequately defined. METHOD:A total of 167 consecutive patients admitted to the stroke units of two university hospitals after an ischaemic stroke and 109 controls received extensive m...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Brodaty H,Sachdev PS,Withall A,Altendorf A,Valenzuela MJ,Lorentz L

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been called one of the signature injuries of the Iraq War. In this review prevalence estimates of PTSD are summarized and discrepancies are discussed in relation to methodological differences between studies. METHOD:We searched for population-based studies with a mi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sundin J,Fear NT,Iversen A,Rona RJ,Wessely S

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Childhood early life stress (ELS) increases risk of adulthood major depressive disorder (MDD) and is associated with altered brain structure and function. It is unclear whether specific ELSs affect depression risk, cognitive function and brain structure. METHOD:This cross-sectional study included 64 antidep...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Saleh A,Potter GG,McQuoid DR,Boyd B,Turner R,MacFall JR,Taylor WD

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study integrated an experimental medicine approach and a randomized cross-over clinical trial design following CONSORT recommendations to evaluate a cognitive training (CT) intervention for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The experimental medicine approach was adopted because of documen...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wexler BE,Vitulano LA,Moore C,Katsovich L,Smith SD,Rush C,Grantz H,Dong J,Leckman JF

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Potential cases of presenile dementia of the Alzheimer type (PDAT) in the Northern Health Region (estimated population aged 45-64, 655,800) were ascertained for the years 1979-86 from in-patient ICD-9 codes and other sources. An algorithm was applied to the casenote information to distinguish between Alzheimer-type an...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Newens AJ,Forster DP,Kay DW,Kirkup W,Bates D,Edwardson J

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the present paper, sex differences in the association between adult depression and childhood experiences were examined. METHODS:The study series of the Finnish UKKI Study consisted of a population sample of 501 men and 499 women. Information concerning childhood experiences was gathered retrospectively i...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Veijola J,Puukka P,Lehtinen V,Moring J,Lindholm T,Väisänen E

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The assessment of inter-regional functional connectivity (FC) has allowed for the description of the putative mechanism of action of treatments such as deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the nucleus accumbens in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Nevertheless, the possible FC alterations of othe...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Cano M,Alonso P,Martínez-Zalacaín I,Subirà M,Real E,Segalàs C,Pujol J,Cardoner N,Menchón JM,Soriano-Mas C

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is thought to be useful for chronic pain, with the pathology of the latter being closely associated with cognitive-emotional components. However, there are few resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (R-fMRI) studies. We used the independent component analysis m...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Yoshino A,Okamoto Y,Okada G,Takamura M,Ichikawa N,Shibasaki C,Yokoyama S,Doi M,Jinnin R,Yamashita H,Horikoshi M,Yamawaki S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primiparae were randomly assigned to two conditions of routine ultrasound examination at their first antenatal clinic visit: (a) high feedback ultrasound where the monitor screen was visible and the patient was shown the foetal size, shape and movement (N = 67); (b) low feedback ultrasound where the screen was not see...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Reading AE,Campbell S,Cox DN,Sledmere CM

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the relationships between cardiovascular variables (SBP, DBP, and HR) and circulating natural killer (NK) cell numbers, 70 male volunteers were subjected to a rest condition (N = 30) or a stressful laboratory task (N = 40). At baseline, no significant relationships could be demonstrated between the numb...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Benschop RJ,Godaert GL,Geenen R,Brosschot JF,De Smet MB,Olff M,Heijnen CJ,Ballieux RE

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies have shown that specific cognitions and behaviours play a role in maintaining chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). However, little research has investigated illness-specific cognitive processing in CFS. This study investigated whether CFS participants had an attentional bias for CFS-related stimuli and a ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hughes AM,Chalder T,Hirsch CR,Moss-Morris R

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age and sex-adjusted first admission rates for operationally-defined schizophrenia and other non-affective psychosis in different ethnic groups were calculated over the period 1988-1992 in a defined catchment area in South London. Standardized rates for schizophrenia, corrected for age- and gender-related under-report...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Van OS J,Castle DJ,Takei N,Der G,Murray RM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Virtual reality (VR) may enhance the effectiveness of psychological interventions for acute pain. We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the efficacy and safety of VR-based interventions for pain associated with medical procedures. METHODS:We searched PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, and PsycINFO until...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Georgescu R,Fodor LA,Dobrean A,Cristea IA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is clearly established that emotional events tend to be remembered particularly vividly. The neurobiological substrates of this phenomenon are poorly understood. Recently, the noradrenergic system has been implicated in that beta blockade has been shown to reduce significantly the delayed recall of emotio...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： O'Carroll RE,Drysdale E,Cahill L,Shajahan P,Ebmeier KP

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantified magnetic resonance measurements were made of superior temporal gyrus, parahippocampal gyrus, hippocampal, frontal and temporal lobe volumes and of the planar area of the thalamus and basal ganglia structures in 47 late paraphrenic patients and 33 healthy elderly controls. The late paraphrenics were divided ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Howard R,Mellers J,Petty R,Bonner D,Menon R,Almeida O,Graves M,Renshaw C,Levy R

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00